Bex and her Tech For Good Live pals Harry and Sasha are joined by the wonderful Chelsea Slater from Liverpool Girl Geeks and InnovateHer, to talk about the gender pay gap and question Jeff Bezos' motives, our Greg would be proud.

 

Things we mentioned:

 

Stat of the week

Only 30% of brits know what the gender pay gap is

https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/14/only-30-of-brits-know-what-the-gender-pay-gap-is-but-do-you-7946174/

 

Charity news of the week

Charities, it seems, aren’t down with the kids:

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2018/09/21/charity-retailers-failing-to-connect-online-with-generation-z/

Prototyping park projects

https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/prototyping-projects-parks/

Student Union platform helps societies get sponsorship http://www.businesscloud.co.uk/news/tech-for-good-platform-helps-student-unions-bag-funds

Tech news of the week

Has Jeff Bezos done something which isn’t Bond-villain-level-monstrous?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/13/17855358/jeff-bezos-day-one-fund-nonprofit-preschool-amazon

 

Rant of the week

Gamers continuously need to get their shit together:

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/total-war-rome-2-is-getting-review-bombed-on-steam-because-of-women-generals/

And Finally...

Trump. Haha.

 

 

More from Chelsea:

https://twitter.com/innovateheruk

https://twitter.com/lpoolgirlgeeks

 

Thanks to The Federation in partnership with The Omidyar Network and the Co-op Foundation also thank you to the wonderful podcast.co.

 

Special thanks to @geekytom for the theme tune

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